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Attitude And Reaction to Health Warning Message Of Cigarette Packaging On Smokeres
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Ali Asadian   , Teamur Aghamolaei * , Abdul hussian Madani , Amin Ghanbarnejad |
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Abstract: (13229 Views) |
| Background: One of the principal methods for informing
tobacco consumers about the risks of smoking is the warning
message on each cigarette package. The purpose of this study
was to determine the attitudes and reactions of smokers to
warning labels cigarette packages.
Material And Methods: This cross-sectional was conducted
on 300 smokers residing in Bandar Abbas in 2013.Subjects
were randomly selected from 10 urban districts. Data collection
tools included demographic characteristics, attitudes and
reaction of smokers. The collected data was analyzed by
SPSS software 19 and descriptive and inferential test .
Results: The mean age of smokers was 36/8 years with a
standard deviation of 9/9 and range varied from 18 to 70 years.
The mean history of smoking was 13/6 years and average
number of cigarettes smoked daily was 13/3. Respectively
terms of education, most of smokers (41/3 percent) had a
high school diploma. Descriptive statistic revealed 2 percent
poor, 44 percent moderate and 54 percent of smokers had
good attitude towards health message .44 percent of smokers
had good reaction ( notice, talk about messages, reminders,
disgust, fear ) to health warning message. Chi-square test
showed a significant relationship (p<0/05) between smokers,
reaction to health messages and their attitude. Smokers have
a good attitude to messages, their attention was drawn to the
message, when smoking messages were remembered and
talked about the messages and Messages leading to fear and
hate them.
Conclusion: Based on the results, it is suggested to
strengthen features such as attention, awareness, remember
effects of smoking, thinking about the effects of smoking,
raising concern, fear and hate in health warning message on
cigarette packages that response to the message and will be
followed to reduce smoking. |
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| Keywords: Cigarette pack warning message, attitude, reaction, smokers |
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Type of Study: Research |
Received: 2013/08/18 | Accepted: 2013/09/9
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